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Foxconn tells hundreds of Chinese staff to return from its Indian iPhone factories


Foxconn ordered over 300 Chinese employees to return home from its factories in India, per Bloomberg.

Apple’s biggest assembly partner, Foxconn, has ordered more than 300 of its Chinese employees to return home from its iPhone factories in India, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources. The motivation behind the order was not immediately clear, Bloomberg reported, though the outlet noted that Chinese officials have been asking regulators to curb knowledge and tech resources from being exported to India in a bid to preserve the country’s manufacturing heft. In May, Foxconn received Indian government approval to build a $435 million semiconductor plant in the country.

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